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Finish. Finish the beginning and middle (or at least try) before you do the ending, you might have forgotten to mention an important detail.

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Edit. Edit the middle and beginning before you start, you may have misspelled or forgotten something important.

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Read. Read your book before you start on the ending. That way, you will remember what you wrote in the beginning and middle.

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Think. What should logically happen next? Don't make it too obvious, though. You don't want to bore your reader.

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Write! Even if you don't know what exactly should happen next, try to write at least something. Go from there.

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The last sentence or paragraph. This is hard. You are trying to conclude your book. Think about the theme, plot, what has happened throughout the book. Try to put these things in the conclusion. Does your book teach the reader a lesson? If so, put that in your ending.

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Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid to add on a character to the end or to mix things up. The worst thing a publisher will say is "No."

Try. Try thing you may have never tried in your story, Like eating a sneaker. Your character can be invincible if you want!

Stay on the subject. Don't say "I like pies, Sara gave me one today and oh Sara is SO mean, I hate her." Say "I Like pies. Sara gave me one pie today, I saved the pie." or "My use-to-be-friend Sara is so mean. She threw a sneaker in my mouth."

Use good words. Editors and publishers hate fixing stupid things like changing "Good" To "Finest." Besides, finest might not be what you want, you may want "not so good" or "Fine, But not very good". You don't want to be taken wrong. At all.

Try not to write group dialog and description too much. Have it mixed in together or it will seem like something great is happening and your characters may end up standing around doing nothing. Keep the action going while they are talking, if you can.

Don't rush through. In the end of your book, don't rush so you can be, let's say, a Nine-Year-Old and published. You may not want that, and rushing will not improve your book. If anything, it will make it worse.

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